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The archives are organized by year-on-the-web, a sort of fiscal year that begins on November 8. I posted my original web-site on a university server on that day in 1998; the site moved to fecundity.com several months later.

The First Archive (1998-1999)
The Second Archive (1999-2000)
The Third Archive (2000-2001)
The Fourth Archive (2001-2002)
The Fifth Archive (2002-2003)
The Sixth Archive (2003-2004)
The Seventh Archive (2004-2005)
The Eighth Archive (2005-2006)
The Ninth Archive (2006-2007)
The Tenth Archive (2007-2008)
The Eleventh Archive (2008-2009)

Recent News

In chronological order:

Fonts in the wild [permalink]

30nov2009: I stumbled across a cool thing today. My font Ambages was for the logo and packaging of the boardgame Aztec Market. The font was originally just intended to be a kind of block doodle, but this continues the trend of folks on the internet interpreting it to be mesoamerican.

The Decktet rampant [permalink]

28dec2009: A game is not ranked in the BoardGameGeek database until it is rated by enough users. Of the over 44,000 games in the database, 5,831 are ranked. The ranking for a game is a function of the average of the ratings and the total number of ratings. This means that the highest ranked games are both rated highly and rated by thousands of people.

The Decktet is modestly-well rated by a few dozen users. Just yesterday it crossed the crucial threshold and entered the charts. As of this moment, it is at 2573rd. It is in the midst of some well established games. Especially since most of the copies of it are ones that people have made for themselves, it's holding its own. (Although I do sell spiffy printed copies, there are more BGG users who indicate that they own a Decktet than there are people who've bought copies from me.)

The book is go [permalink]

13feb2009: I just released The Decktet Book, a 136 page companion to the Decktet.

Busting out happy [permalink]

25feb2009: Cristyn successfully defended her PhD thesis today. Since she is in San Diego for the defense, I don't have have anyone with whom to celebrate the news. So, for now, I'll do a little dance and announce it here.

This means, of course, that she and I are both Doctor Magnus. If anyone asks after one of using that appellation, we can feign confusion as to which one of us should answer. Will that kind of situational comedy ever get old? (Yes, but we'll revel in it for a little while.)